LINEHAN v. STATE

No. A-10190.

224 P.3d 126 (2010)

Mechele K. LINEHAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

February 5, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Orlansky, Jeffrey M. Feldman, and Alexander O. Bryner of Feldman Orlansky & Sanders, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Diane L. Wendlandt, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Richard A. Svobodny, Acting Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and BOLGER, Judges.


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Mechele K. Linehan appeals her conviction for first-degree murder. She challenges three evidentiary rulings made by the trial judge.

First, Linehan argues that the trial court improperly allowed the State to introduce evidence of a letter written by the victim of the homicide shortly before he was killed. In this letter, the victim asserted that if he died under suspicious circumstances, Linehan would probably be...

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